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No. 6 op 1912.
GOVERNMENT OP INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.
To
The Most Hon’blk the MARQUIS or CREWE, K.G., P.C.,
Jlu Majetty'i Secretary of State for India.
Calcutta, the 18th January 1912.
Mr Lord Marquis,
With reference to your telegram, dated the 5th December 1911,
regarding the alleged violation on the part of the British Indian authorities
of the Perso-Baluch frontier, we have the honour to forward, for the inform
ation of His Majesty’s Government, a copy of the papers noted in the accom
panying schedule.
2. In August* last, the Hashmat-ul-Mulk, Deputy Governor of Seiatan,
who for some time previouslv had been
• Enclosures Not. i »n4 2 . instigating the Baluchis to‘raid in the
Kainat, extended his operations towards British territory by sending his
emissary, one Nazar Jan, to Kacha to recover his share of the^ looted
property which had been taken across the British border from Kain. On
receipt of this information we tele-
t Enclosure No. s. grapliedf to the Uon’ble the Agent to the
Governor-General in Baluchistan to expel Nazar Jan and his party from
British territory, and directed that he should not be permitted to take away
any persons or property that he might have seized in British limits, ihe
Local British authorities had, however,
j Enclosure No. 14. already takenj action, and it will be seen
from the report, dated the Uth September 1911, from our Agent in Bal ichistan
that the Persian party actually arrived at Bug, which is well within the
territory we claim, but were made to remove themselves, leaving a represent
ative in the person of Nazar Jan, to whom, after careful enquiry, the loot
claimed by the Persians was restored, as it was clearly shown that the property
had been robbed from Persian territory.
3. In connection with the question of the boundary in this locality, we
would invite a reference to Sir H. McMahon’s memorandum on the Perso-
Baluch boundary question of the 5th November 190i!, which formed an
§ Cop, fo r w.rd,d»Hh Foreign irt..r enclosure of his letter No. 2510,§ dated
No. 4s m., dated the 1st December i'ju4. the 5 th November 1904, and to the mao
annexed thereto. The principles underlying the settlement which was
ultimately arrived at by Sir A. Uardinge at Tehran in 1905, were that the
boundary should not be specifically defined, that the status quo should be
adhered to, and that no further claim should be made by either side. The
status quo meant the then existing conditions of occupation by either side.
The “ red ” line on the map referred to above ro ughl y represented the
limits of our occupation, and it will be seen that Piran lies well within this line,
while Kacha is on our side even of the “ blue ” line. It will thus be observed
that not only has there been no violation of Persian limits on our part but
the Persians have themselvej disturbod the status quo by transgressing British
territory.